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A tendency to judge people before knowing them, basing the judgment only on their membership in some group or category of people.
Bias
Your thoughts or beliefs about specific groups of people.
Stereotypes
The condition that occurs when companies hire employees who are frequent targets of discrimination into all levels within the company.
Equal status
An ethical philosophy that holds that all decisions should be consistent, unbiased, and based on fact
Principle of justice
The expression of the standards of right and wrong based on conduct and morals in a particular society.
Ethics
Prejudice and discrimination based on gender
Sexism
Prejudice that is caused by policies in the workplace that are not intentionally set to exclude members of specific groups or to treat them differently, but which have that effect anyway.
Institutional prejudice
The ability for people, organizations, and businesses to relate to culturally diverse situations and work effectively in them
Cultural intelligence
Principle of the common good: An ethical philosophy that decision made for the common good affect the best choices for individual and societies, in the present and the future.
Principle of the common good
Intentionally false and misleading information, including propaganda issued by a government organization, to damage the reputation of a rival power or media source.
Disinformation
Social stereotyping about certain groups of people that individuals form outside their own conscious awareness
Unconscious bias (implicit bias)
The belief that one’s ethnic group is more normal than others; an emotional source of prejudice because of people’s gut-level feelings about how right their group is—and, in turn, how wrong they think other groups are.
Ethnocentrism
A federal agency established to monitor the laws set in place by the amended Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended in 1972.
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
An ethical philosophy that all human life has value, and ethical decisions should protect all.
Principle of universalism
A clique of trusted family members, tribal members, or friends (depending on the culture) who are at the center of power or influence.
Inner circle
Attitudes and beliefs individuals hold on a conscious level, related to a person or a group. The type of bias often arises as the direct result of a perceived threat.
Explicit bias
Prejudice and discrimination toward people who are poorer or wealthier than you are.
Economic prejudice
Behavior that is defined by the EEOC as “unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature.”
Sexual harassment
An ethical philosophy that holds that all decisions should do the greatest good for the largest number of people.
Principle of utilitarianism
A practice commonly seen in developing countries based upon mutual obligation and resulting in the exchange of favors over years and even generations; also used in some industrialized countries such as Japan and South Korea.
Future favors
Prejudice and discrimination toward older people.
Ageism
A process in which the mind quickly sorts information into categories to function efficiently.
Cognitive categorization
The tendency for a prediction to actually occur once it is believed; for example, when a victim believes that prejudice against him or her is true, then fulfills these negative expectations.
Self-fulfilling prophecy
An ethical philosophy that stresses decision that are wise, true, and lead to one’s best self.
Principle of virtue
A strong tradition in many cultures, in which giving gifts creates a future obligation to the receiver; it can also be a rite of passage into an inner circle.
Gift exchange